Statutory Instruments
2016 No. 308
Income Tax
The Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2016
Made
7th March 2016
Laid before the House of Commons
9th March 2016
Coming into force
6th April 2016
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 6th April 2016.
Amendment of the Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) Regulations 2006
2. After regulation 14A(1) of the Registered Pension Schemes (Provision of Information) Regulations 2006( 3 ) insert—
“ (1A) For the tax year 2015-16—
(a) for the purposes of this regulation the pre-alignment and post-alignment tax years ( 4 ) are treated as a single tax year and references to “tax year”, “the relevant tax year” and “the relevant pension input period” shall be construed accordingly,
(b) without prejudice to sub-paragraph (a), the condition in paragraph (1)(b)(i) is satisfied if the aggregate of the pension input amounts for the tax year 2015-16 exceeds £80,000, or the aggregate of the pension input amounts for the post-alignment tax year exceeds £40,000,
(c) without prejudice to sub-paragraph (a), the information required to be provided pursuant to paragraphs (2)(a), (2)(c), (10)(a), (10)(b), (10)(c) and (10)(f) must be provided separately for the pre-alignment and post-alignment tax years,
(d) paragraphs (2)(b) and (10)(d) do not apply,
(e) the annual allowance for that tax year is excluded from the information required to be provided pursuant to paragraph (2)(d), and
(f) the unadjusted alternative annual allowance for that tax year is excluded from the information required to be provided pursuant to paragraph (10)(e). ” .
Ruth Owen
Jim Harra
Two of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
7th March 2016
2004 c. 12 ; section 251(4) was amended by paragraph 47 of Schedule 10 to the Finance Act 2005 (c. 7) and paragraph 93 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation of Pensions Act 2014 (c. 30) , section 251(5)(aa) was inserted by section 49 of the Finance Act 2010 (c. 13) and section 251(6) was amended by paragraph 93 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation of Pensions Act 2014.
The functions of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue were transferred to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs by section 5(1) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11) . Section 50(1) of that Act provides that insofar as it is appropriate in consequence of section 5, a reference in an enactment, however expressed, to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue is to be treated as a reference to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
S.I. 2006/567 ; regulation 14A was inserted by S.I. 2011/1797 and amended by paragraph 88 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation of Pensions Act 2014.
The pre-alignment and post-alignment tax years are defined in section 228C(2) of the Finance Act 2004. Section 228C was inserted by paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the Finance (No. 2) Act 2015 (c. 33) .